Re: [orca-list] PDF readers....yet again?

[Rynhardt Kruger <rynkruger gmail com>]

Sure, it is here:

https://blinet.ml/pdfocr.sh

One uses it like so:

$ pdfocr.sh input.pdf > output.txt

I originally wrote this for myself, so there might be some issues.
There are probably also much better ways of accomplishing this in a
shell script. If anyone can suggest refinements I'll be glad for them.

Regards,

Rynhardt

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:30 PM Jonesy Cee <jones cee7 yahoo com> wrote:
> Would it be possible for you to share this shell script?
>
> “ Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
> ~ Helen Keller
>
> On Apr 16, 2021, at 5:46 AM, Rynhardt Kruger via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> 
>
> I usually get the best results with Chromium's built-in PDF reader. It places each page in a landmarked 
> region, allowing you to quickly jump between pages with m and shift+m. It also supports at least some PDF 
> accessability tags.
> For broken PDFs requiring some cleanup I use pdftotext from poppler to convert them to text. If the PDF is 
> really badly broken, or if it's an image PDF, I use pdftocairo to convert each page to a PNG image, and 
> Tesseract to OCR the images (I have a small shell script to automate this process).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rynhardt
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, 11:24 Jace Kattalakis via orca-list, <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> > I know. I know this has been asked to death but I didn't get the last
> > round of emails, so....
> >
> > I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. I'm after an accessible .pdf reader, so I can,
> > well, read pdfs and I've no idea where to start. Any help is appreciated
> >
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